No 10 Commercial Street
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
8-10 Commercial Street
Other names
8-9 Esplanade
Location
Commercial Street south side
Type of property
Part of warehouse complex
Valuations
No recent transactions
Families and businesses associated with the property
Apart from the single 1874 listing, this property does not otherwise appear in census returns or almanac street directories, being treated as the rear of the warehouse at 8-9 Esplanade
See the 2004 report below for details of early ownership
Almanac listing
- 1874: C Pirouet
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
The entry shows the property as No 10, but the report produced for the Planning Department in 2004 shows the property as Nos 8 and 10.
A rare example of a high quality Edwardian warehouse retaining many original fabric and features: 1901-1906, with some possible earlier reused fabric.
Three-storey, six bays. Slate roof. Random granite walls, ashlar granite quoins and surrounds to loading bays and ground floor entrances. Brick window dressings. Ground floor has three wide vehicular entrances, the off centre one, bay 3 from west, higher, all with cambered arched heads and keystones. Left entrance has plank door. On east a narrow tall window with shutters with vents, pin hinges. First floor has two wide loading bays with shutters on strap hinges. Four windows with four-pane fixed top lights. Second floor has similar arrangement but loading bays have brick dressings as well as the windows, which are 12 pane sashes with horns. Cast iron rainwater goods, also at rear yard, now covered and joined by roof of timber and tie rod construction, to 8 and 9 Esplanade comprising a frontage house and adjoining office, outbuildings of circa 1860-66 and circa 1901-1906 respectively.
Granite cobbles at entrances with cart kerb stones (heurteux) at sides. Interior divided into six bays, by slender metal columns or timber posts supporting timber beams. First floor and second floors have chamfered pine beams supported on timber posts. Scar in rear south wall for former ladder stair.
2004 historical report
In 2004 lawyer and historian Christopher Aubin was commissioned by the Planning Department to produce a report on the history and significance of 8-10 Commercial Street
It was described as a preliminary report in advance of a complete review of the island's remaining historic warehouses. The report contains a detailed description of all the structures on the property and gives these outline details of early ownership.
- In 1834, following the completion of the first section of the Esplanade from Conwayt Street to Patriotic Street, the Le Gros map of St Helier shows what became Commercial Street as New Wharf Street, with undeveloped reclaimed land laid out in strips on either side and just a single building on the old sand dunes on the south side.
- That year George Le Cronier acquired from Clement Jean de Quetteville a plot of land between the Esplanade and the yet to be constructed New Wharf Street. This adjoined a second plot already owned by Le Cronier, probably to the north of where the road would be built. The plots passed to Le Cronier's heirs and was included in the partage of his property in 1850, which allocated the Grand Rue (Broad Street) property to his eldest son and the southern plot to George Louis Le Cronier. He sold this to Charles Pirouet and Jean Lecaudey in 1860, when various undefined outbuildings had been constructed.
- In 1866 the owners divided the property, Pirouet taking the east half, which had had a house built on it, and Lecaudey the west, which had outbuildings. Lecaudey became bankrupt in 1871 and Pirouet acquired the whole property, which he sold in 1876, described as a house, outbuildings and yard, measuring 49.6 metres by 22.7.
- By 1888 the property bore the number 8 Esplanade, and it was sold in 1901 to Ernest Briard and George Francis Le Cronier, described as No 8 Esplanade, outbuildings, stores and yard.
- The property was sold, to Le Rossignol and Roissier Ltd, in 1906, and again in 1929 when the western part was described as 9 Esplanade.
- It would appear that both the store facing Commercial Street and the western portion of the building facing the Esplanade were built between 1901 and 1906.
